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WITBOTL, welcome to the forum. Since you are a relatively new poster I would like to suggest to you that you read previous posts in a topic to prevent covering the same material. For example -- This was essentially asked of DHK on Page 4 (Post #39). This was similarly asked of DHK in Post...

Pardon me for getting off topic (the inspiration of Scripture) but I want later readers to know that there is an alternative opinion. I believe that all four of Paul's epistles to the Corinthians were inspired; Paul wrote authoritatively to that church and they received the words of God...

You seem to emphasize the inspiration of the men ("authors" or writers) and not much for the inspiration on the actual words. Yet, it is interesting that 2 Peter 1:21 explicitly states that God's men were motivated when they "spake". So, didn't God inspire the words of Jeremiah's prophecy as...

Thanks for the direct answer, DHK. I agree that preservation and inspiration are different processes. I think we also agree that God motivated and directed (although not mechanically) the prophets & apostles to select the very words God wanted written ('verbal' inspiration). We say these are...

If the words of Scripture were not inspired (just suppose), wouldn't the Scriptures still be "profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness"? Would the Proverbs suddenly become unreliable statements, for example?

Why cannot the word "Scriptures" refer to the autographs in 2 Timothy? You previously argued that the same word in 2 Peter DID indicate the autographs! Perhaps Paul in 2 Peter was just speaking the common language of the day (not technical), too. If I make any assertion about the contents of...

Inspiration is not resistricted to just the OT & NT "authors". When any true prophet or apostle spoke God's words (whether they later wrote a portion of the canonical Scriptures or not), those words were motivated (inspired) by the Holy Spirit.

How do you know (chapter & verse?) that God's unrecorded words were not inspired? Is God actually capable of speaking 'uninspired' words? I don't think so. (and in a later post you said that "Inspiration is infallibility.")

DHK, I have a genuine question for you: Are you saying that your Bible has the 'preserved' words of God but NOT the 'inspired' words of God? Stated a little differently: Are you saying that the words were preserved but the inspiration was not preserved? I'm just trying to understand you. Thanks.

Do you think that every (or even most) translators were completely objective? For example, is it necessarily wrong that the HSCB translators had a Baptist theological bias to begin with?

Is it any wonder that we differ on so many Bible topics when we cannot even agree where the inspired words of God are found? Thanks for voting.

This project is driven by conservative politics (not conservative theology, or conservative scholarship). They will presumably omit some varients more for political reasons than for textual ones. For example, they state at their website that their concern that the Pericope de Adultera (John...

This has nothing to do with Bible translation or versions.

But he did posses two original Pauline Greek manuscripts! :tongue3: I see from your poll answer that besides translations being inspired you think that the autographs, MSS, and critical texts are also inspired. Do you see each of these being inspired separately or does the inspiration...

Where do we find the inspiration for Scripture? "Other" could be the writers.

Oh, let's just keep this simple; I'll just display three verses from one of the Gospels -- Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in* the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, (Matthew 28:19, NIV) As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of...

It seems that you understand 2 Peter 1:20 to prohibit "private interpretation" as an institutional (official) exegetical position. This is an unusual position, since it is not really "private". The Greek word is idios (Strong's #2398) which means pertaining or belonging to one's self; I don't...

No question, verse 20 is about Scripture; graphe (Strong's #1124) is the common term used by apostolic writers to refer to the Hebrew holy writ. But I think you know better: this verse is NOT saying that prophecy (of the Scripture) should not be interpreted by individual humans, but rather it...

We can agree then that it is not verse 21 alone that we come to understanding of the trustworthiness of the Scriptures. You had only displayed verse 21 by itself. I don't think verse 21 alone is relevent to autographs. Peter supports his statement that the "prophecy of Scripture" (written...

I think you may be reading a bit more into this particular verse than is actually there. Notice that the verse explicitly states that God's holy men were moved to 'speak' (as opposed to 'write'). The Greek word is a form of laleo (Strong's #2980) meaning to utter by voice or emit sound...